On the recordOctober 30, 2003
I just want to urge the Senate to pass this Healthy Forest legislation and invest more in preventing deadly wildfires. The latest thing we have seen, of course, is in California. That was not unexpected. These woods had insect infestation. We have to do something. Many of us in the West are continuing to fight this. S. 1904 includes carefully crafted bipartisan language. If we oppose that, we are really not serious about reform. The amendments that weaken the appeal process, judicial review, NEPA requirements, would deprive the legislation of some of the very reforms that are needed that we have seen through the years in the West. I want to see us move forward. I think this is a commonsense approach. We have been at it a very long time. This is not even the first year we have been at it. I hope we can pass it and pass it right away. I support this legislation and yield the floor.
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